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s.J' r -y'- Columbus journal 9 Oetuabna. Vtotor. fwiAthaCnlaaAai Tlawa AbcU 1. ItM; with the Platte Coat? Aigaa Jiuw i,uw. Om su vThn 'KDNE8DAY. DECEMBEB 15. UN. 8TB0THEB & 8TOCKWKLL. Proprietor. JcNKWAlS-Th data oppoatte roar mi nnr. or wnoMT abam to whit tl aabeoripOoe to paid. Tkaa Jaatt eaowa Oat narawt baa beta reeatod ap to Jaa.l,lSSS, rabSJtoFab.l,1905aadaooa. Wk to aMde.tae date, which umn aa a and aa nhtaaafl aecordtaaiy. OidOOKTOIDANCCS-Kaapoaatble an will ooaUaaa to raeaiTa tkto Joanal aatfl tha aablleaeraare aotiSai far letter to diaeoatiaaa, wkaaallarraancea anat be paid. If yoadoaet aiak theJoaraaleoatiaued for aaotaer yaar af ter taattae paid for baa expired, ?oa aaeaM prarioaaly aoUfy na to dleooaHaae it. GHAMOB IN ADDBEBS-Waea orderiac a aaange ia the addraaa,aabacribanahoaId be aare t o toe tbair old aa wall aa their aew addraae. The most influential inrargents in Nebraska are Elmer Thomas and Tom Darnell. Notwithstanding the boasts of his eaemies, Joe Gannon continues to wield the gavel and the Gannon rules are still in force. The municipal elections in chusetts indicate that the people prefer the licensed saloon to the underground joint of the boot-legger. A man with a plutocratic name has been chosen democratic leader of the senate. His name is Money, and he represents the fire-eaters of Mississippi. It cannot be said that the American people are "a poor lot of trash." There is on deposit in the banks of the coun try fourteen and one-half billion 'dollars. There is one thing about Mayor Jim Dahlman that none in his party can refute; that is, that he makes no bones about stating his position on any ques tion. If the people of Nebraska have -an opportunity to vote for him for governor they will know in advance just exactly what they are getting a' man that will say where he stands on any question. Nebraska Gity Press. The cogs of the Latta machine are well oiled and there's more lubricating material in the "barrel." Brother Howard is up against a tough propo sition, and if he wins the primary nomination it will be because his pop ularity and ability weighs more than Latta's gold in a political contest. But the fact cannot be denied that money is usually the deciding factor in pol itics. The name of former Railway Com missioner Williams, of Pierce county, has been mentioned as a possible can didate for congress on the republican ticket. Williams is the man the re formers attempted to defeat at the primaries two years ago, and lost out, but they did succeed in skinning him at the polls and electing a democrat and then attempted to lay the blame on the "railroad vote." A Sioux Gity preacher, in a prayer delivered at a Thanksgiving service, found fault with God for permitting old Joe Cannon to live. Another preacher, at Scranton, Pa., said: "No effective temperance laws can be passed while Joe Cannon remains speaker of the house." The fact appears to be lost sight of that Joe Cannon is a gen tleman, a professing christian and a man of temperate habits. Possibly Joe Cannon is also responsible for the condition of the roads in Nebraska and the exposure of Brother and Sister Doxey. t The independence in politics that achieves results, that benefits the peo ple and the country, that remedies evils and rebukes false leaders, is that which transfers the balance of voting power from one of the great parties to the other, and so diminishes one and augments the other that control and authority are shifted. The independ ents who left the republican party to , vote for Mr. Cleveland in 1884, and those who rejected Bryan and made Mr.McKinley president in 1896 really wrought their will upon the politics and upon the policies of the natioaJ That kind of independence in politics is effective. Independence on the . acatteration plan is a nuisance without visible mitigation. New York Times. Why should any one want to kid Bap Mr. Rockefeller? Has he, not troubles enough as it is? The govern- meot is doing all it can to destroy his Standard Oil company, and there are threats of a criminal prosecution of its organisers. The South scorns his book worm fund.' Contempt is expressed for 1us educational benefactions. Mr. Bryan tries to prevent the University of Nebraska from accepting his soney, sad the University of Chicago reaaaias a target for thescoisr. Theaati-vi-visectioniats attack his Iastitate of Medical Research. Waa tae procesr server is not on Jus trail, the village tax-collector haunts him. Whynaraas him farther? About all the fun Mr. Rockefeller gets oat of life is golf. New York World. The action ofthe Nebraska supreme court in debating aa Omaha lawyer from practice in the state, for contempt of the court, has resulted in general sympathy with the lawyer and a gen eral opinion that the pumshmentr is oat of proportion to the oflense. To take away a man's' means ofrapportis not very different from a life peniten tiary sentence. There is a wild and growing opinion that courts have too much power any way. There is no reason why a court should be able to kill a law of the legislature, and there is only'one other country besides the United States where courts have that power. And there is no reason why the dignity of a court should be any more sacred than that of an executive or legislative official. Those who have been judges know that they were no better while they were on the bench than they were before and after; some of them were not as good. It is a hard and useless mental strain to be required to remem bered that a congressman or a gover nor or a president can be called a horsethief with as much' safety as if he were a private citizen, while one may not even look cross-eyed at a judge without being sent to jail. And, in particular, a court ought not to be em powered to decide cases of alleged con tempt against itself. Nobody else has the privilege of being complaining witness and judge in the same case. Scott's Bluff Star. AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY. Rabbi J. Leonard Levy, of Pitts burg, if all that is told of him be true, bids fair to become a benefactor to the race. His people built a $400,000 synagogue in Pittsburg, and when it was completed, learned that the acous tics were so bad that little could be heard but echoes. Various experi ments were tried to relieve the diffi culty, and in despair it was proposed to tear the building down and con struct another. Rabbi Levy was in Europe at the time, and wired them to do nothing until he returned. When he did, he treated the walls with a preparation, known only to himself, which absorbed the surplus sound, and his opening address was heard per fectly. Think what it means; a preparation to absorb surplus sounds. Perhaps the rabbi's brief description is more sweeping than he intended, but if not, he is leading Edison as an inventor, or Peary as a discoverer. To absord surplus sounds, it certain ly rings well for human happiness. Let cities be painted with this gum shoe decoction; smear it over the halls of congress; build hen houses of it that the roosters on the night shift may have a smaller audience; feed it to the cow whose calf has been torn from her bosom, that she may bawl in silence. We hate to say it, but it might even add to the ioys of Home Life, if properly- applied. The noises of peace are worse than those of war, and more numerous. Atchison Globe. The Natura Student's Story. "In my boyhood 1 once captured a nest of three young thrushes. I pot them In agUt cage by an open win dow, and their mother came and fed them regularJywith worms and grass hoppers.' i The speaker, a nature student, sigh ed. "The mother," be resumed, "must have expected her little ones to be soon liberated. She fed them, as I said, regularly for three days on flesh food. Then one evening at Bucset she appeared with a sprig of green in her mouth. She thrust the green in through the gilt bars. Then, singing a sweet sad song, .sne-flew away. And she never came back. Her off spring the next morning lay dead, side by side, on the bottom of the cage. The sprig she had brought them, which was nearly consumed, was a sprig of the deadly larkspur. 'Free dom or death! Death or freedom r That is what must have been the bur den of her farewell song." The narrator paused, and from his listeners a low murmur arose, a mur mur perhaps of sympathy, perhaps of angry disbelief. The Truly Reticent Woman. Speak of a reticent woman and most people picture to themselves a woman -who doesn't talk much. But the truly reticent woman the woman who makes reticence an art is not at all silent She talks with what Is appar ently the greatest candor, so that peo ple go away from her saying what a frank.) genial woman she Is. And no one ever suspects, unless be or she is phenomenally clever, that the genial conversationalist bad all sorts of un spoken things In her mind. Exchange. Father's Real Rale. "Fathers have been much maligned." "As to howr "About using their boots on -suitors. On four different occasions 1 have been lef erred by a young lady to her father, ted every time I found it was for the , purpose of letting me down easy." PttmburK Post. A REVENGE TIME TOOK AWAY One bright May Boning two chun ky boys labored with hoe and seed drill on a 40-acre field in Schuyler county. They had beat the son ap by several hours and at 9 had accom plished the daj's work of twerdiaary hands. But there yet remained much to do, for the entire tract had to.be covered and put in condition for nature to begin her ripening influence before those boys retired to their cots in the attick of the old farm house. Now and then the father, retting ap from his own labors on another part of the farm, would come over and look at his sweating progeny and smile grimly. He knew why they were out-Heroding Herod that day. There was to be at Bloomfield some body's "Stupendous Aggregation of Reptilian Marvels and Bewildering Galaxy of Bejeweled Steeds, Earth Shaking Elephants from India, Clowns from the Bowery," et cetra, world that hath no ending. By finishing up the field that day the boys were to have as their reward the use of two horses to ride to Bloomfield, where "the sea of tents" was to undulate on the morrow's breeze. Mother would give them gin gerbred cookies, but they were to have no scrip in their purse. That didn't worry. The only torturing dread was lest it might rain; history comprised no greater calamity than that would be. No field on the American continent had gloried in such a thorough grub bing and seeding since the red man moved sullenly, back to his canyons and mountain wilderness. JSven the old gentleman, who was an expert on such matters, said the boys had done well, and earned their holiday. , The dawn came on, with here and there only a fleecy speck against the blue sky; no threats of rain. On every highway were horsemen and farm wagons, pilgrims to pay homage to the gods of mirth and marvels. It was a happy crowd. In each wagon were hankers of fried chicken, salt risin' bread, pickles, doughnuts and cold tea in bottles. Our farmer boys were near the head of the procession of pilgrims decked out in new straw hats, rainbow neckties and blue jeans. They knew everybody and shouted boisterous greetings as they swept by wagons and creaking buggies. Bloomfield was alive. Every road was a swollen stream discharging a tide of humanity into the meccaof the pilgrims. Bands blared, barkers howled and gentle farmers went blithe ly against every game. That's what they came for and they would have resented it as in interference with their personal liberty had any official guar dian sought to caution them about their pocketbooks. The farmer boys from Schuyler county, like true sons of the soil, first found a ehady nook for their horses, placed feed within reach and then set out to view the wonders. Talk of Venice and her gondolas. Rome and the Vatican. Monte Carlo and its golden glitter! They were ancient and moth eaten alongside the great Amer ican institution, with its swelling can vas and seductive incense of sawdust They offered no clown who could fall on his head in a dozen different ways and then get up and laugh; no Seno rita Somebody, who could turn a double somersault on horseback, jump backwards through a hoop and kiss her white hands at a wildly yelling constituency composed of the bone and sinew of the land. After the parade the boys went to their horses, sat down in the shade and enjoyed their gingerbread cookies and clear water from the town pump. Then they discussed a plan of cam paign for the real event of the day getting into the "round top." The ordinary method was to go by the boxoffice, where a gentleman with a plug hat would sell you a ticket for fifty cents. That scheme had to be abandoned for financial reasons. They circled around the outer edges several times, bumping at frequent intervals with fierce looking men who carried clubs. It was decided to rash the citadel when the enemy wasn't looking. They waited until some other boys, laboring under the same financial stringency as themselves, made an attack; then when the fierce looking men were busy with them the Schuy ler county lads got down on all fours and hastily slipped under. But, ah me! Something always happens to jerk loose the most perfect strategy. Ask Napoleon orCornwallis or Admi ral Cervera and they will tell you the aame. A. great bier, lantern-iawed. squint-eyed prize fighter came out from under 'the canvas, one rough, heavy paw holding to the younger boy's ear, and the other grasping a wicked look ing shellalagh. "Clear out now before I lay this on yer back!" he growled. With that he fluag the sobbing urchia from him. The boy dried his eyes as quick ssJm could and turned to the bouncer. ' "Too great big plug!" he said. "One of these days you'lk come to me and get down on your knees for a job in my circot, and.then then I'll smash you!" "Aw, gwan!" remarked the fierce bouncer, grinning derisively. "Your maw wants yer down home ter mind tk' baby." Then he hurried around for other worlds toTconquery- The afternoon sun beamed down on earth with needless energy. What matter whether it rained or not? At frequent intervals roars of laughter and applause swept out of the chinks in the round top to the exiled boy who was sitting on a log. To him it was about as pleasant as listening to the clatter of skeletons when some one palled the wire. He would have gone home, but duty bade him wail for his brother who, it seemed, had got past the dead line. And there he had to stay all the afternoon, within a stone's throw of five thousand persons who were having the time of their lives. It was like being tied up in a chair watching another fellow make love to your sweetheart -After several years had passed into history the show was over and the elder brother, with face abeam, came floating out in the swarm. He wanted to tell his comrade all about it, but the latter curtly cut him off, sajing he didn't care much about circuses any way. He Would have enjoyed himself better at home planting corn. The boy whose hopes were blighted that day was William P. Hall who, when he reached man's estate, became known as the largest individual horse dealer in the world. He possessed the rare trait of being able to tell a good horse at a glance, and this caused men from all over the United States to seek him out and purchase from him. He established a branch stable in Cape Town, South Africa, and placed his brother in charge. The main stables were in Lancaster, Mo., where there are always fifteen hund dred to two thousand finelv bred horses and mules awaiting shipment. People began calling him "Diamond Billy" because he walked, under a plug hat and wore diamond shirtstuds and rings. After some years of successful deal ings with horses "Diamond Billy" ad ded wild animals to his stock, buying and selling lions, tigers, elephants, sacred oxen and boa constrictors. Once a circus owed him so much money that Billy had to take in the entire outfit Then he concluded it would be a nice thing to manage a circus him self. He found one over in Ohio, bought it for $50,000 cash and adding it to the one he had, started on the road with "William P. Hall's Great American Circus." Billy and his shiny plug hat were al ways on the high" seat of the blue and gold band wagon in the parades, and he became known as one of the great est circus men of his time. He knew all about horses and wild animals, and took to the circus business as the sparks fly upward. Between the time when he, a forlorn farmer boy, sat on a log outside the round top and wait ed for his brother and when his name appeared on the bills a3 proprietor of the big circus was about twenty years. In those two decades Billy had grown into a formidable looking man. He weighed more than 200, and could pot enough steam in his right arm to "stop a locomotive." He was the strongest aud quickest man with the circus. Soon after Billy started out with his circus he told his manager if a cer tain man, whom he described minute ly, should apply for a position he would like to meet him personally. The circus joe yed in the Far West, then through the South, and finally faced about on the homeward trek as the frost began to whitten the pumpkins of Missouri. Camp was pitched at Galesburg, 111., and before the tents were in. position the manager came to Billy with a curious smile: "Your man's here; wants to go with us." "Sure?" "No doubt on earth; long lantern jaws, narrow slit eyes; scar at right of the mouth. I guess there couldn't be two men like him." "Fetch him in." Billy arose and walked up and down his private car. He took off his coat, rolled up his sleeves and tried his mucle. His eyes glowed with the light of battle. , He .would give the man a job all right, but the old score bad to be settled first. Billy had never forgotten; He couldn't Not that he was vindictive; he cherished no ill feeling toward the man, but he . just felt like it had to be a trial of strength between ansa; thea they .woy shah! hands aad be good friends. He reaaeaiWrad the bouacer as a powerful fellow, and hews doubtless versed in the science of giving and re ceiving blows. Men of his kind were generally appointed for that reason. Billy decided to let the manager act as referee ia it would be satisfactory to the bouacer, if not he could choose a man himself. There would be plen ty of space in the next car, when the baggage was out. The fight should be fair; no kicking, biting or clinching; just a square-toed stand up give and take. The sporting blood was boiling; the primal instinct to straighten out a wrong set it going. Billy found him self waiting the combat with an antici pation akin to that animating him long ago when he had set out with the dawn to see the circus at Bloomfield. Ages past, it seemed, and yet how well he remembered! That incident and the man had been burned into him. From that date the balance of life had been out of plumb; there was a matter unsettled; a drama that had been bro ken off in the middle. That was why his memory of it was so tenacious. And now he was to have a reckoning. Ye gods! What luck! Just as he was beginning to lose hope. "Come in!" This in response to the managers's knock. Behind him was a bent figure using a cane. At each step he mum bled as with painful exertion. The manager took his arm and guided him to a seat. The visitor glanced about, wearily. Then he muttered something in the way of apology for the intrusion, like a beggar who suddenly finds him self in surroundings above his kind. Billy looked keenly at the caller, and recognized him, though he was only a shadow of the giant who had hauled him by the ear from the tent. There was the lantern jaw, the slit-like eye, the hideous mark by the mouth all forming a shriveled reproduction of the picture he had carried in his mind for twenty years. "I I thought I'd call an' see if you would'nt let me travel along an' sell popcorn outside the tents," he said, in a thin, quacking voice, "used to be a showman myself, butgotrheumatizan' couldn't do no good." Kansas City Star. Patting of the Organ Blower. "The organ blower is passing. He will soon be, like the armorer, extinct," said a musician. "It's a pity. He was a quaint type. "Most of my blowers were simple minded old chops who firmly believed they must suit their blowing to the music. In soft, light passages they blew soft and light. When the crescen dos thundered forth they worked fran tically, blowing with all their might and main. "Often a facetious reporter on the local paper would refer to 'the excel lent blowing of the organist's , assist ant Mr Bellows.' Then the blower in his vanity would develop all the affec tations of a Paderewski or a Sousa. Now he'd blow delicately, a dreamy smile on bis lips, bis eyes half closed. The music would change to a march, and he'd stamp his foot in time, while up. down, up. down, the old bellows, in time also, would be jerked. At a cli max his face would redden, he'd bend to his task and blow so fast and furi ous that the organ would nearly burst." Philadelphia Bulletin. A Resourceful Woman. "I think it Is a foolish fashion that so many women indulge, that of tell ing their age wrongly." said the wo man with the prematurely gray hair. "I can honestly say that I never prac tice It myself." "No?" said her friend, with many meanings in the monosyllable. "Well." said the Drst speaker, with a smile she was a woman with a sense of humor "the fact is I don't have to. I have a way of making myself out younger than 1 am if I wish to with out telling a flb at all." "Really?" inquired the other curious ly. "In what way?" "I put the burden of the flb all upon the questioner. You see. when one of my dear women friends It Is always women who are curious on this point aska me bow old I am I say: 'Oh, I'm a. year or two older than you. you know, my dear at least a year older. Let me see, now, how old are you? And then she always knocks more off my age than I should ever have the nerve to do myself." Seventeen Year Locusts. The seventeen year locusts are some times called Pharaoh's .locusts becauss they make a sound that resembles the repeating over and over of that historic name. The notes or songs are not what might be termed vocal, as they are pro duced by the rapid vibrations of two very thin films that cover a small cav ity at the base of the abdomen. In some localities the sound produced is somewhat different from that beard in other sections. i&Jong streams, espe cially along the Ohio river, the notes are more bass, while on the highlands and especially in the mountain regions the sounds prod need are more shrill. Omaha World-Herald. Much Mixed. Some of the passengers were wait Jig at a way station in Vermont for the train to Burlington, says the Sat urday Evening Post "What kind of a train is that?' ask ed one of them of the busy station master. "Oh, freight and passenger togeth er." "Mixed, eh?" "Worse than that," said the station master. "It's what you might call scrambled." FURNITURE TALK About Our New Fall lone We are showing on the floor at the present time our new line of Bed Room Furniture in Circassian walnut, mahogany, bird's eye maple, golden oak and the good imitation quartered oak. In beds we have something new in wood in the Ver ms Martin and enamel finishes. The first time these goods were shown was in Grand Rapids last July. We can truthfully say that at the present time we can show you a larger line of bedroom goods than we ever carried before. In kitchen cabinets we have just received a line of the Springfield make, the best we know of, in prices ranging from $18.50 to $40.00. We also show the Mc Dougalline of sifter bin cabinets. Pedestal extension tables, 42 inch round tops, we are selling now for $11.00. These are first class tables in oak and ash, solid woods, golden oak finishes. Genuine quarter sawed oak tops on these tables at $14.50 and $16. HENRY GASS 219-21-28 West Eleventh Street Columbus, Nebraska CHRISTMAS For a good Xmas dinner, order your Groceries of us. We can supply you with Xmas Trees, Candies, Nuts, Vegetables, Produce, BRUNKEN ft HANEY Let Us Prove To YOU That You Want This Minneapolis Heat Regulator We can provide it and prove, that if you have it installed, you won't sell it for what it cost you. 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